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How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
Plume
August 2016
On Sale: August 9, 2016
272 pages ISBN: 0147517605 EAN: 9780147517609 Kindle: B01839Q4ZE Trade Size / e-Book
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Humor
History has never been more fun—or more
intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have
transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but
booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our
civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans
brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to
uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced
history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a
major victory for women’s rights to the beer that helped
create—and destroy—South America's first empire. And Evans
goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he
recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most
painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along
at home. You’ll learn how to: • Trip like a Greek
philosopher. • Rave like your Stone Age
ancestors. • Get drunk like a Sumerian.
• Smoke a nose pipe like a pre–Columbian Native
American.
A celebration of the brave, drunken
pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad
decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores
a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide.
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